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. . . photographer Erwan Frontin‘s wildflowers, all of which he discovered while traveling throughout southern France. Don’t you feel as though you can just reach out and touch them?
carbon nanotubes are depicted in a variety of shapes that nanotechnology researchers can now create. These unusual substances may aid the development of new transistors, sensors and other electronics.
Powers of Minus Ten, Meta!Blast and Build-a-Body Games The game Powers of Minus Ten allows players to zoom into a person’s hand, explore the world at different magnifications and learn about the human body (in the screenshot above, a cellular-level magnification shows dividing cells). In Meta!Blast (below), another zoom-in game, players save shrunken lab mates trapped in a plant cell. Along the way, they explore cell structures. Build-a-Body (last image) helps players build a human and learn about a menagerie of diseases.
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NASA has released a stunning video taken from the International Space Station that shows the Milky Way and lightning storms over Africa.
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Viewed at a magnification of over 250 times real life, tiny grains of sand are shown to be delicate, colourful structures as unique as snowflakes. When seen well beyond the limits of human eyesight, the miniature particles are exposed as fragments of crystals, spiral fragments of shells and crumbs of volcanic rock. Professor Gary Greenberg who has a PhD in biomedical research from University College London said: 'It is incredible to think when you are walking on the beach you are standing on these tiny treasures.
Believe it or not, bees made this flower and mud nest!
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